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Kimberly Robinson, a Greencastle building contractor, former retirement home owner and restaurateur since August 2000, won approval Monday night to add on to her Highline Restaurant and Railway Lounge. The council voted to grant Robinson a waiver to add an $86,000 addition to the restaurant at 101 W. Washington St., described on the Internet as a “premium dining destination.” Robinson said after the meeting that she needed more room to expand the dining room and kitchen and to add a new lounge.

A new Taco Bell restaurant could be open in the Greencastle area before the end of the year. “I think we should be open this year. I hope before Christmas,” Tom Cook, director of development for BurgerBusters Inc., said Friday. BurgerBusters Inc., based in Virginia Beach, Va., operates franchisee organizations for Taco Bell in North America. “If all goes well, we could have the Taco Bell up and running by the fourth quarter of this year,” he said. Until you get all of your permits, it's difficult to judge when the store will open, Cook said.

A Franklin County, Pa., man was killed Friday morning in a head-on collision on Interstate 81 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania State Police said. Clayton Stoner, 26, address unavailable, of Greencastle, Pa., was driving a northbound tow truck that crossed the median into the southbound lanes, troopers said in a news release. The 9:30 a.m. crash involved four vehicles about three miles south of Exit 37 near Newville, Pa., troopers said. The tow truck sideswiped a tractor-trailer pulling a double trailer, troopers said.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. -- On Wednesday, Sienna Fitzgerald and Dolly Shoemaker both participated for the first time in the traditional Old Home Week photo. Just two months old, Sienna was among the younger participants. Her family situated the infant, dressed in a yellow-and-white onesie, toward the front of the crowd of hundreds. Her mother, Breanna Holloway, twice before took part in the photo, which is a key event in the triennial Old Home Week celebration. She described participation as important for "memories and being part of Greencastle.

Saying he would keep government small if elected president, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told an enthusiastic crowd Sunday he wants to be a leader for America during a critical time in its history. “I will not divide the American people. I believe fundamentally we are one nation under God,” Romney said. Romney, the front-running GOP candidate for the U.S. presidency, served as the keynote speaker for the Franklin County (Pa.) Republican Committee's Lincoln Day Dinner about 36 hours before polls open for the state's primary election.

Peter Mozurkevich, chief of police in Greencastle, Pa., tendered his resignation early this morning, after the borough council voted Tuesday to terminate his employment. In his two years as chief, the police department lost several full-time officers and began to rely heavily on a part-time force. Elected officials in Greencastle have quickly begun the search for Mozurkevich's replacement. Read more in Thursday's Herald-Mail newspapers.